• Vote for The Retreat in the Signal Awards!
    Oct 10 2024
    The Retreat has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Health and Wellness category! It's a listener choice award, which means we need your help. If you enjoyed The Retreat, please vote for the show to win here. We appreciate your support!

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  • The Retreat, Ep. 5: The Insiders
    Jun 26 2024

    Since the podcast published earlier this year, Madison’s inbox has been filled with emails. Some were from former volunteers at the Goenka network who wished to speak out. In this bonus episode of The Retreat, they pull back the curtain on why they believe some people are not being supported when they come on retreats and find themselves psychologically unraveling.


    Translations of Sayagyi U Ba Khin’s discourses from Daniel M Stuart and Swe Swe Mon can be found in the paper: Local Cure, Global Chant: Perfomring Theravedic Awakening in the Footsteps of Ledi Sayadaw.


    For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.


    If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, or Samaritans in the UK.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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    41 mins
  • Power for Sale, Ep. 4: Business as Usual
    Jun 5 2024

    With elections just weeks away, and news of more foreign interference scandals in the European parliament, the reporting team gives an accounting of where the investigation and the suspects are to date.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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    26 mins
  • Power for Sale, Ep. 3: Belgiangate
    Jun 5 2024

    It seemed like the Belgians had everything they needed to bring a case against the people involved with Qatargate, but the investigation hit a wall. Valentina and the reporting team speak to the prosecution side to find out why.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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    25 mins
  • Power for Sale, Ep. 2: Ocean’s Eleven
    May 29 2024

    Through wiretap transcripts and surveillance footage, captured by Belgian intelligence, Valentina and the investigative reporting team learn just who is involved with this scandal and how it all worked.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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    28 mins
  • Power for Sale, Ep. 1: 'Bags full of money'
    May 29 2024

    Valentina learns of raids and arrests at the European parliament and a scandal unfolds. They talk to the face of the scandal, Eva Kaili, and hear about the day of the raids through her eyes.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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    30 mins
  • Introducing Untold: Power for Sale
    May 16 2024

    Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. In Untold: Power for Sale, host Valentina Pop and a team of FT correspondents from all over Europe investigate what happened in the Qatargate scandal, where EU lawmakers were accused of accepting payments from Qatar to whitewash its image.


    Untold: Power for Sale airs May 29. Follow wherever you listen.


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  • The Retreat, Ep. 4: Another Death
    Feb 14 2024

    Madison Marriage hears of another death, one that happened five years before Jaqui’s. Was the Goenka network aware of the dangers of intensive meditation? Marriage asks what the organisation is doing, if anything, to protect people from harm.


    For support or more information about adverse meditation experiences, take a look at the Cheetah House website.

    If you are in need of urgent mental health support, please contact your local emergency services or reach out to a mental health helpline, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, or Samaritans in the UK.


    Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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    45 mins